Does this trick work for anyone else with ADHD?

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My husband has ADHD and usually forgets to drink water.
I tried giving him several small bottles instead of one big one.
He ended up drinking more without reminders.
Is this a common ADHD thing, or just a coincidence?

I think the point is lots of people with ADHD can ignore their body’s cues.

Yes we can, but it's very unlikely we are all sitting here dehydrated all day. We also frequently take ages to go to the loo when we need to, but no-one endlessly goes on about the dangers of holding your bladder or says it's very important you pee 8 times a day, even if you don't need to.

This is fair, but the op seems quite stressed about him not drinking water and filling water bottles that he is ignoring he is a grown man

"So called people"?

Adults need to replace fluids used throughout the course of the day from all sources. Most of this is naturally consumed via their food (e.g fruit and vegetables contain a lot of water). All drinks (tea, coffee, milk, soft drinks etc) also count.

If there is a deficit, thirst will be felt. Any drink or water containing food can be consumed to correct that deficit.

There is no biological need to drink pure water at all, and certainly not bottles and bottles of it. Eating a normal diet and drinking when thirsty is all that's required for health. This has been proven in many, many scientific studies. Yet for some reason people seem determined to follow the word of some completely unqualified influencers over peer reviewed scientific studies and fully researched medical advice.

I don’t drink water only decaffeinated tea and coffee due to meds but I’m lucky if I get one cup in me.
I usually only remember the one I made earlier when I go to warm up another one and see the one I forgot I made earlier in the microwave from where I warmed it up and forgot it again so I tip it away and forget about the other one in the microwave instead. There’s usually one on the fireplace too that I forgot I made and I’ll remember the one in the microwave when I go to warm that up.

The comment actually scientific reports …. Get all they need from food.

yes of course drinking juice, tea, coffee hydrates too, but the comment was about food.

Lots of ND people have poor introception and so don’t get thirst signals.

Did you read the article?

"To replace daily losses of water, an average-sized adult with healthy kidneys sitting in a temperate climate needs no more than one liter of fluid, according to Jurgen Schnermann, a kidney physiologist at the National Institutes of Health.

One liter is the equivalent of about four 8-ounce glasses. According to most estimates, that's roughly the amount of water most Americans get in solid food."

So yes, for most people their solid food diet contains all the water they need. As most people also drink plenty of fluids too by choice, there's really no need to also be drinking bottles and bottles of water, or indeed any water at all. Do it if you want to, but it conveys literally zero health benefits if you are eating and drinking a standard diet.

That's the actual scientific facts of the matter.

Is this your field of work? If you’re just reading something from Snoaps, it’s not a good reflection of facts.

I've read many, many peer reviewed studies on this.

Snopes is a good summary for forums like this as it's vastly summarised in a way people who cannot comprehend scientific and medical research papers can access.

Feel free to believe nonsense influencers over researched scientific papers if you want, though.

thanks … I have a degree and PhD in biochemistry, worked in clinical research for 25 years, so just checking if you’re not just selecting something from Snoapes (I don’t use this source) to make a point (anyone can find a crappy paper, doesn’t make it correct though … some people argue that point til they’re blue in the face, but don’t know a wider breadth of the field)
I think that sentence about it being food only, full stop. … then following it with drinking tea/squash etc was a bizarre way to phrase it. Physiologically/metabolically etc, with a modern diet (ie lots of sugars and sodium etc) humans need to drink, not plain water, the body can process out the water (surely everyone knows this) so of course tea, coffee, milk, squash etc, even soups and similar meals are predominantly made up of water.

Everyone is different, ADHD is very much about bespoke strategies annoyingly.

I have a 900ml stainless steel Sho Guzzler with a built in straw, it lives on my desk and makes me drink a lot more water.

Yes, I do that and it does help.

Not just "soups and similar foods" (e.g liquid ones), but almost all foods have a high water content, which I'm sure you know as a biochemist e.g 65% water content in cooked meat, 80+% in fruit and vegetables, 65ish% in cooked pulses, even hard cheese is 35%+ water, so it's really easy to see how a standard western diet can meet a person's typical water needs easily, before you add in the customary drinking of tea, coffee, milk and soft drinks. Hence why, unless you have a rare medical condition, there's no reason to monitor or increase your plain water intake. Just eat normally, and drink if you're thirsty.

Do why do people feel thirsty? … and if you centrifuge a meal, I doubt that doing this, for a while days worth of food would give you 2-4 litres of water, let alone the fine balance needed with sodium ingestion

As a biochemist, do you really need to ask this?

I do have ADHD.
I cannot stomach the taste of water
I am often dehydrated, and I struggle to take in enough fluids even in winter
When I was pregnant, I’d chug 20oz bottles of water all morning for the baby
I hated it
Smaller bottles would make it easier for me to ignore them, so it wouldn’t work on me.
I am happy for your husband if it works for him.

Don’t goad me, if you have something intellectual to add, please do so